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A coral reef rivals even a rainforest for its diversity of life.
珊瑚礁的生物多样性 甚至高过雨林
Yet corals like this are found in waters where food is very scarce.
但这些珊瑚 是住在食物稀少的水域
All the creatures here
这里所有生物
have had to adopt a different and highly specialised way
已经适应 高度特化的不同生活方式
to gather every nourishing scrap.
收集每一个有营养的碎屑
Christmas tree worms bore into the coral's skeleton for protection,
圣诞树虫钻入珊瑚骨骼寻求保护
swirling out and grabbing food particles with their feathery gills.
把身体卷成一圈探出 用羽毛状的鳃抓取食物碎粒
Coral barnacles are, in fact, related to lobsters.
塔藤壶其实是龙虾的亲戚
They lie on their backs,
它们躺着挥舞长脚
waving their feet to gather any food floating past.
收集漂过的任何食物
Crabs have evolved many different ways of gathering food.
螃蟹演化出许多觅食方法
This porcelain crab
这只瓷蟹的
has a fan of filaments on his front legs.
前肢有呈扇形的细丝
A boxer crab attaches a tiny sea anemone to each fist.
拳师蟹的双螯 各抓着一只细小海葵
As well as for defence,
除了作为防卫
he uses their sticky tentacles to gather passing plankton.
它也用海葵的黏性触手 收集路过的浮游生物
This orangutan crab's whole body is coated with sticky hairs,
这只红毛猩猩蟹 全身长满黏性细毛
in this case, perhaps just a bit too sticky!
但现在它或许觉得太黏手了
